Quote

Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.

Anais Nin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Neuilly
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
Lives
Heart
Love
Life
Friendship

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
Anais Nin
Image
To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
Anais Nin
Image
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
Anais Nin
Image
At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say Anna and then add ees, with the accent on the ees.
Anais Nin
Image
We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.
Anais Nin
Image
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
Anais Nin
Image
Great repressions create dualities.
Anais Nin
Image
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
Anais Nin
Image
When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
Anais Nin
Image
Most artists have retired too absolutely they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
Anais Nin
Image
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
Image
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
Anais Nin
Image
Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
Anais Nin
Image
My diary seems to keep me whole.
Anais Nin
Image
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Image
Balance is not to be sought by association with others it must exist within one's self.
Anais Nin
Image
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
Anais Nin
Image
She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.
Anais Nin
Image
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
Image
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Anais Nin